There was a thread on this site about this thing people are capable of doing I wish for the life of me I could remember the exact term it was something along the lines of an internal monologue anyways it was about people who had a severe lacking or nonexistent ability to visualize in their minds anything...lets say and apple not the average normie in this thread could close their eyes and see an apple more or less, it would be round be some shade of red or green and maybe even the stem with a little leaf on it or even the old Apple computer logo with the section cut out but ol' Dave is one of those people who can't visualize "whuhhhh? a rainbow apple dose aren't real MORAHN ack ack ack". Even abstract concepts are met with bitter lashing out *person* "hey Phil if you had access to a time machine that took you back to just one point in your life to tell your past self something that would help you out today what would that be?" *Dave* "HUHHHHHHH? TIME TRAVEL? Whut duh fuck are you talking about fucking morahn time travel doesn't exist *seal laugh* god what a morahn".
Man I wish
@Steve of the dead would stop being a fucking weirdo about cats and talk about this. Because I know a thing or two about how brains develop, but I can't really diagnose. But something is deeply, deeply fucked about how his brain developed.
Like here is the thing right, as I am sure we all know, brains can't just do everything right away. And it all develops in stages. Its why that even if you could teach a child calculus, and we have people who know enough to explain it to five year olds, they can't really learn it. And thats because the brain develops understanding in an in to outwards kind of fashion. It has to learn where all of its body is before it can begin to use it to babble and move before walking and talking and feeding itself.
And I am getting this in depth for a reason, don't worry. Because once a child learns its own space, it finally recognizes the space around it. First in front of it. Then behind it. Then you have a "functional" human. And the reason it is important that I have detailed this is because when we recognize these things as steps. We can pin point where things have gone wrong.
Now being able to recognize things behind the child is a cute way of me talking about object permenance. Which finally gets into the hard stuff to learn. And thats the abstract. Learning how to abstract goes through your whole life until 25ish. At which point you should have all the necessary hardware to do it. And typically the last thing people learn is real empathy. Its why car insurance upcharges people until then. Science recognizes that being the point that people really understand that their actions can have consequences that go out well beyond them.
Like how even if they don't wreck their car or hurt themselves or others, wrecking other people's property is still a shitty thing and they even grasp the "cost" of hitting a parked car. Really granular stuff. Stuff well well outside of Phil's grasp.
So, we have to roll further back. Like Phil doesn't even grasp the consequences of his actions. And there is a lot to this. Like early on, people are taught that doing something bad gets punished. And people internalize this. The first way is that you understand that it "hurts" somebody. Which people will rebel against by saying things like who does it hurt? If you can find a victimless crime, you take it. Phil is very guilty of this. But then the next step is understanding that it hurts you. And there are two branches on this. Most people develop a moral guideline that stops them from doing "bad things". Phil never did this. And also people recognize that you can also hurt yourself by your actions. Not even just morally. But in the sense of wasting your money means you have no money later. Or not cleaning your house gets you sick.
And thus we arrive at Phil. He has no sense of self outside of his literal current existence. He had his development arrested somewhere around teenage years. As we see, he understands the idea of consequences. He even knows how to rebel against them. He even knows that it hurts some vague other. But there is no real other. His wife, his parents, his audience don't exist to him. Until they are suddenly in his awareness. And I can prove this, because even his future self doesn't exist to him. Why would others? And why it is selfishness, certainly. I think its a very deeprooted problem and he goes even beyond being a retard or an autist. He is just actually broken. And I would love to know what happened to him. Or did his laziness extend so fucking far he was too lazy to actually grow the fuck up.